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Ernst Kantorowicz : A Life

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lerner, Robert E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations. Introduction
  • Old Posen and young Ernst
  • "With rifle and gun"
  • Fine fever
  • Heidelberg
  • St. George
  • The Castle Hill
  • Frederick II
  • Center of attention
  • Becoming a professional
  • Frankfurt
  • Year of drama
  • Oxford
  • "Leisure with dignity"
  • Flight
  • "Displaced foreign scholar"
  • "Without any desire for Europe"
  • Laudes regiae
  • Fight for employment
  • "Hyperborean fields"
  • "Scarcely wants to go to Germany"
  • "Land of lotus-eaters"
  • The fundamental issue
  • Advanced study
  • The king's two bodies
  • "EKa is sick of EKa"
  • Last years
  • Afterword. Index.